The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1921, Page 6

By mat Hho to assist themselves. of the marine corps. is small. essay is about New Year It is designed solely readers who have passed It told his wife he loved s0 hard that he could really himself under great stress; ht told Nellie he was human; it told the swearer he wasn't so dog- good as he had thought was. ‘But the great thing gained was Start his thoughts in » new Now it is New Year's eve. custom has been to go some- for a midnight supper with sorts of darn foolishness. Sup- you reverse the entire order No matter if you have ‘made & reservation—no matter if friends do expect you. What Mf It? .Disappoint ‘em. Do some- hing different. Do what you want to do for once in life. You've always wanted to wear flashy neckties, but you were afraid the folks would laugh, Resolve tonight to go downtown the first day the stores are open ‘and buy just what you want in the way of a tie and wear it re gardlews of consequences. Do this once or twice. Shock | Yourself out of the groove, and ‘You have put yourself in the way of living ten years longer and a century happier. ‘There's something in it, folks, More than you think right now, perhaps. Do today's duty, fight todays temptation, and do not weaken and Aistract yourself by looking for- ward to things which you cannot | se and could not understand if you saw them.—Charles Kingsley. | You can’t push yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. | New Year's Post Card. Two can keep warm cheaper £4 one. @ woman eho has never up law can lay it down. The Seattle Star out of city, Be per month; B mentha, H1.60ee months #278) F * wtate of W $4.58 for @ monthe or 4 a per month, 4 month nington 0 per year Outelde of the state Ty carrier, elty cers were divided into two classes. There were regular officess and emergency offi- cers. The regular officers were quickly promoted to higher positions that advanced of them from the battle line, made them instructors or placed them in positions they were of more value, perhaps, but in less danger. The emergency officers took the brunt. other class of fighting men. ‘Some 1,500 of them today are utterly helpless from wounds, or are only partially They faced mayhem and death more than as soon as they are fit to leave the hospital, they are turned out “on their to shift for themselves and, often, for dependent families. army officers disabled for active service are retired on three-quarters pay for Navy officers, regular and emergency, get similar compensation. So do of- ‘The emergency army officer, tho he gets no pay rating now, has not been quite is a bill in congress, the Bursum bill, Senate No. 1965, Calendar No, 22 provides three-quarters pay for emergency army officers retired for disability. shouf not hesitate to pass it. As only 1,500 men are affected, the amount it stands a good’ chance of being lost unless Americans who believe in fair y get behind it and demand, immediately, that the senate pass the Bursum bill with- delay. Clubwomen thruout the East are active in its behalf. b will do some work for it here? What Seattle Tommy O'Connor, who broke jail to keep from being hung, was afraid he couldn’t stand the sus- pense. The Indiana bank robbed three times this year has nothing on the baby’s bank. The real idle wheels of commerce have “E Plu- ribus Unum” on them. Nights are getting long “enough for bootleggcrs to make three trips. ereating an instant famine whieh nothing could prevent, What would happen would probably be the calling of an in ternational conference to decide on a new standard of exchange A German Midas? Mythologists used to recount the story of an avaricious king named Midas who was granted the power of converting into gold —based on grains, in all likeli everything that he touched. At hood. first We was pleased with the gift But before this could be brought about the world would be seized in such a wave of suffer ing and outlawry that the recent war would seem a paradise in comparison. Eventually, affairs might be straightened out and those of us who had survived would go to work for—say a bushel of wheat a day. But we would have learned our lesson even more bitterly than Midas did his. Let's hope that the dispatches aren't right; that the chemist hasn't succeeded in his quest; or, if be has, that he wif! have the decency (to destroy the formula and take pledge never to tell it to anyone. —but gratification gave way to horror when he discovered that water turned to gold the instant it touched his lips; that food turned to gold as he lifted it to his mouth, and that even his loved ones turned inte cold, gold- en statues under his fatal touch. The story was probably intend- ed simply as a parable, to teach the lesson that riches alone will not buy happiness. Yet today we face the possibil- ity of Midas’ story being literally reenacted—not simply for a sin- gle individual, but for the whole world. e The possibility is brought home by dispatches from Europe to the effect that a German scientist be- lieves that he has at last attained the age-old goal of the alchemist Every member of this house and the senate is opposed to a rich man and that he will be able to trans . buying a seat in congress. We ane 1 ts tate have seen the case of a man con« bap theted of a crime of ¢ acy At first glance it might appear goainst section & of the corrupt that such a discovery would be » boom to humanity—but remember, Midas, too, thought he was the luckiest of mortals—at first, The immediate effect of the discovery would be to throw the practices act in spending a huge amount of money for election and the case reversed by the mupreme court, which said that primary elections were not in existence at the time the constitution went into and therefore the conatitu- tion did not give congress the right whele world into bankruptey. 1, jooisiate as to primary elections. The fiseal system of the world is = w should provide tmmediately besed upon gold and sliver, and some kind of a law that twill pro- as process which would make "ct an honest man in his cam- paign for a seat in the congress these as cheap ax lead or iron PO” 10” 2 erat tm i would make all the money of aiid every nation worthless. Editor The Star: Ma sez, “Polka This would, of course, ruin that're aliua on the fence, some cbily tank ane tees ie day're goin’ t lean Jest a leetle too bah y every far an’ get a awful fall.”"—H. K. M. business firm and individual in the world. The champion vegetarian of the Real property, houses, boats, world won't eat animal crackers. railroads, clothing and the like, TD You muat sing a song of expense to get a vottle full of rye would have a value—but, because of difficulties in the way of ex- change, it would be virtually im- possible to realize on them for months. Food would be the only item of real and immediate value in the world—and people with food hand wonld start to hoard Leave no leaf unturned in get- ting prosperity for 1922 A man with a smart son believes in heredity. on re Next to loafing the hardest thing is work A SONNET BY CELIA THAXTER ‘ wes up and down life's various ways With noiseless footfall and with serious air: Within the circle of her quiet days She takes her share. In her bright hor some rare jewel set, The luster of her beauty lives and glows, With all the fragrance of the violet, And all the radiant splendor of the rose, As simy vd unconscious aa a flower, And crowned with wormanhood’s most subtle charm, She blesses her sweet realm with gentle power, And keeps her hearth-fires burning ¢ id warm, To know her is to love her, Ivery year Makes her more precious and more wise and dear. THE SEATTLE STAR Home Has No Solicitors Out Bditer The Star dered discontinued by us Any per Will you please publinh, at the re therefore, either In Seattle, or in of our board, the attached no! the state, or in Canada, who is soll tice to the public with reference to| iting funds, selling b or pamph slicitation of funds for the Ryther jets in the name of the home, or for | Child home Thanking you for th€\ the benefit of the home, le doing *° courtesy, I am, yours very truly without any authority from us, and J, L, GREENWELL, puld be discountenanced by the Secretary Ryther Child Home. | pubtic | We will greatly appree it if NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC jthe name and address of any such Tt is reported to us that solicitors) person, whether », woman or} are in the fleld collecting funds for | child, be forwarded to us at 261 lm jthe Ryther Child home. pire building, Beattie, Wash. for at tention By order of THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Of the Ryther Child Home, Concerted Action Is Needed We have no solicitors in the field, J and n of funds, sale of! ke or pamphlets of any kind for | benefit of the home, has been or All wolieitats (Copy) |morelal value to the Puget Sound | \ December 22, 1971. | country, 1 | Mount Tacoma Club—A. H, Den-| The mountain iteelf would be} M. G, Mitohall, Bée'y | Petter vertined, as “Tacoma” | 4 would locate it on get Bound and . Wash ea Me Puget Sound le better known than | Rainier | However, the efforts of individu als, no matter how earnest, will not) in the result desired-—what ia| needed in concerted action by an| asvured I will very gladly to-operate organivation devoted to this partic in endeavoring to secure for the| ular object | mountain its rightful name-—“TA-| While a few COMA.” |may oppose the I am frank to confess that it i#| “Tacoma,” sentiment ts unant | not sentiment as much as com-|mously of that belief, many | mercial reasons that governs my|comments are heard here of favor-| ives. If we call the mountain | ing the change | and tha)park "Tacoma] 1t would be advisable to get cer Park,” it @t once identi-;tain newspapers to advocate the | them as being Iseated the | change, and then with that aa pre- | Nofthwest, near Puget Sound. liminary publicity, an organisation | The sme “Tatoma” in better | could be launched to take this work | known the world over, is more) up actively and pursue it to a suc | edphonious, perpetuates our Indian | cessful conclusion nomenclature, has @ distinct mean Very truly yours ing in that language, is not WILLIAM PIG@TT, |nartly mispronounced, ix Pacific Northwest membered, and Gentlemen Your recent communication con cerning = th correct name of “MOUNT TACOMA” has been read with interest, and you may rest in Seattle | back to} people change not in ord easily re bas @ distinet com: | Why Slavishly Copy Others? Prenident For-| eign Trade Council. | Editor Star capable of putting this town on the Why do Seattle and other Coast! map? cities slavfkhly copy the atyles of, Gur future depends upon a cer Rurope and New York City when it/tain amount ef originality in the! comes to clothes, architecture, food. development of our resources. The amusements, education, fads and only way we can make progress is follies? to develop our own individuality as) Is not our own Pacific Coast farja city, To be @ little different [more beautiful and wonderful than should be our aim, We should not J any other spot in the world? Is not be content to follow the lead of the! fasion to that extent Are there no business heads here JESSLE P. MOSIER, 1225 Sixth Ave. LETTERS TO EDITOR] 9 We Need a Big Trade With World BY AMATEUR KCONOMIST In there r anon why foreign we should have @ large Outside of the moving of trop countries, and the transportation of mafufactured goods to places where they are manufac tured, in there any” une of this tremendous shifting of goods all over the world? A long time ago it was foynd that @ person could produce a lot more if he gave all bis time to ne thing. ‘This principle has been growing steadily stronger thra all history, Modern trans portation is #pecialize, the als have in the past Thin distribution ables the English nation t with his coal ufactures articles yangen them for the raw products of other countries f labor en- exint what about the United Btates, a nation which does not need to import either raw mate rials of manufactured goods? Where is the advantage to us in all thin exchange? It i» protible that an Ameri an, working with a tractor on one of the rich farms of the Mississippi valley, can produce asm J hele ch food in a year as 100 laboring on the hilly of Japan. An American salior demands lees labor and more than does a Japanese it is probable that a J will produce as much in trans portation ay one and one-half Americans would If our logic in good, two Amer jean farmers and two Japanese sailors will produce as much aa will one American farmer, one and one-half American sailors, one Japancne sailor and 100 Japanese farmers In this case, commerce would about double production Are we to look for more spe- clalization among the nationg in and is the present of commerce making the whole world poore jSeattic a city of opportunition other cities, We should take the) ™ents each day |ereater than those usually falling! initiative ourselves, |}. Ask any wife and mother who jto the lot of cities? Let's be the first city In the|!eft business to marry how her new town in the United States! United States to have good times,/Job compares with the old one. If 4 as a door knob. And #0 new industries and lots of work for|*%* Ws the kind of mother who is tthe. She even follows Ue the unemple: | bringing the childr up right and caring for the home besides she will tell you whe never knew what work | . was before marriage. No matter | Py " | how many children there are, her | Raitor The Star |7 ls at the rate of 45 conta, an ad-| Under Leng ge a a ggg 1 eretand there in to be an in| vance of about 66 percent. Copies! means en additional burden upon Veatigation of the reasons for’ the) o¢ the new fréight tariff covering| her «boulders, welcome tho it may | [high prices of food stufts | As & packer of food stuff I hand | You \herewith original freight bills covering shipments of my goods) that go far to anewer the question) as far ae I am concerned j You will note the shipment to Aberdeen, Wash, of Sept. 1 ie at the rate of 24 cents «a hundred | pounds, while the shipment of Deo.) 2 iw at the rate of 45 cents a hun-| the Coast towns faking effect Deo. | 1 show the same tages of advance to almost There are many high costs of food #tuffe that the/ papier, jobber or retailer cannot) contre! and cannet be held respon | sible for, but“the fact remains that when the rafiroads advance freight) rates from 50 to 100 per cent, an} ina for) | Editor The Star | 1 read with great enjoyment the|the present day. Their suppored |interview in your paper about the! superiority is largely @ financial| man who “understood women” and| matter, Because the wife had the! was kindly offering them his bearing and rearing of the chlidren| knowledge that they might bold|and the supervision if not the ac] their husbands, and the later com-|tual labor of the housekeeping to} ments by your readers including a lady who makes so bold as to offer) husbands a bit of advice, and a man! keep her busy it was necessary for the husband to be the actual wage | earner, The receiving and handling signing himeelf “Charleston F®ad-| of his money fooled him into think-| er.” jing he was the only one capable of| Modern, intelligent people certain-|acoomplishing aoything worth ly understand that it is as ridicu-| while. Frequently he doled it out| }lous to prepare one set of laws for|to his wife as tho she were an ir ithe wife and another for the hus| responsible child who must needs! | band as it would be to lay down cer, account to him for its expenditure. tain rules of conduct for blondes| The labor, responsibility and mental Jand certain others for brunettes. In| strain which the mother and house the long ago men actually believed! keeper is enduring is rafely if ever quiet on the vest use of tin GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE lw | meditation Tho Advancement of Learning, the YESTERDAYS A wie anes ANT-NT +FREIGHT~ TIGHT +1Ic0 -c +A@AFRICA of the race. wuffered an imposition at ‘he mcrifices of parenthood been thrust altogether upon shoulders and they are fearping only now that meant TT |that they were superior to women! understood or appreciated by the | and this delusion .was so pleasant to! husband. He considers her part of their egotiom that #mall wonder|the homemaking as something — to they are loathe to relinquish it, and! be Hehtly tamed off in a few mo prt enemas oneenggemnetinasisansoetnsipnineaeh ave BY DR. WM. EB. BARTON | Reformation, the Discovery of —— is no agree.| America occurred about a minute ment among *od &@ quarter ago, and the «team scientista as to ©oxine ts less than half a minute the number of i years the earth The race has just begun to do | | has been in-|things that can be recorded. The habited by man. #rller struggles were not without fo far as there | Value. Some of the most notable is any approach | 4 hievements belong to that unre |@ to such agree | COrded period that stretches from ment, it be| the midnight of the race to ita seid 00 that|¢@wn. But all that we have of! § the foesil r cord in since, not the dawn, but — of the human | ## the striking of the middie apecioa tend to suggest a period of | Point between 11 and 12. | ec ing like 240,000 years since| The day is ® natural unit of time: the first being that could be classi-}{t if measured by the revolution of | fied \ay human took up his resi-|the earth. The month ts « natural | Aebhotth te eaves, division; it is measured by the moon. | Heinrich, Schmidt, pupil of Haeck-|Th* Year Ix a natural division; it is ¢l suggested as a convenient chro |™Meesured by the sun. But the nologi¢al chart, the reduction of | her multiples, the decade, the this Whole period to the time be |°°Mtury, the millennium, are arbi tween midnight and noon of one| (rary, and depend on the fact that ‘aay }man counts on his fingers and That in, let us assume that sin | Seen ance Sekettie —- ris race began at midnight last night./the crust of the pacha A and is now at the noon of its pow: | chan 1 earth ‘or the than 11% hours of unrecorded life. | siderable fraction of the ilfe of coy The earliest vestiges of ctviliza-| man tion appear in Egypt and Babylo The close of a year is not an un at 11:40, Christ was born at 11:56.| favorable time for a iittle be Women are the burden bearers In the pant they have unbelievable amount of the bands of man have their this te not There as it was to be. in absolutely [dred pounds, an advance in freight|these freight bills show they have hoe Sc cell hydlanes pes | rates of just about 100 per cent,| done, there is very amall chance) ii.» are now finding It out | which came into effect on Dec. 1. |foF lower prices, no matter how| ‘sy OF0 BOW RAE Of Oa | The other freight bills show ship-| honest the packer, Jobber or retail-| 10, ener they themselves are not | ‘ er may be in his efforts to i pos Bs Prova _ |menta to Portland, Ore. that of Se 7 oa ower! prepared to obey. Man has no | Nov. 3, at the rate of 31% cents a ma ours very truly, more right to exercise authority | hundred pounds, while that of I M. 1, C. over his wife than she to dictate to - 2 |bim. Marriage gives neither any! I rights ower the other Both will Women the Burden-Bearers [exe naleaben’ hice x ppsneal ta some of these poor fish survive to| tbe human race, but neither has the oR 31, 1921. SATURDAY, DECEMP | | AGetter from AN RIDGE MANN. will may good-bye, ite race is run; and Father Time, the nt age, again will turn another page, a page no mortal ¢ read; the New in here—the Old in’ dead The Old jeud; it traveled fast, its Joye are gone, its troubles pant; ite grief and gladness, car play, are we of Yesterday; there enters 1922; the Old ts we er New We greet th w; ite page is clear, a clean, untarn art in here; let'® giv life the best we've got, and try to keep it free from blot; the Past is dead and jaid away, we start anew from to day day to day—for each and all will still be prone to slip but days are links In Time's great chain, and years are and fall never lived in vain, if we but keep our standards true, and day by ] Gay begin anew Kin anew with hopeful heart, for half the battle’s In the start || from year to year, from age to age, each day we turn another page; each day a chance to forge ahead, each day is new—the Old is dead. j The Qld is dead—the future teems with cherished hope and golden dreams; the Old is dead, its race is run, we turn to face the rising sun; with hopeful hearts we greet the New and welcome akes whether wilful or uninten-| graceful they ai mi tional dingrace us but Mireelves, And by | "Neither need look to the other/the same law, infidelity in not @ |for an accounting a @ parent to a| just cause for divorce child, or & master to a ‘either need feel disgraced . Quotes King on Education iditor The Star |trely unfitted for that trust. by the| patibility. ADNA HUGHES, it is time the people understood) Conditions today demand © |that there is a powerful, persiat| thorough education along specific lent, wellorganized opposition to lines acquired by hard study on they | public school education,” said Henry | part of the student in order to fit” |. King of the Seattle school board them for the competition they must lin an address before the university | meet, yet under the present regime | students a short time ago, only an imitation of an education is This is the manner in which Mr.| poxnesned by the majority of the King attempts to excuse his ltions on the school board. If Mr.) ington E@dcation Journal shows | King thinks his “hotair” will act/ that out of 2,700 applicants at the las a smoke screen he ix mistaken.| university 50 per cent could not |The public are wellgaware of the qualify. lextravagnnces indulged in by Mr.| No, Mr, King, we want an | King and his fellow members of the education for our young citizens school board, ‘The utter indiffer-/that will make them competent in jence of Mr, King to good business their chosen line at a reasonable | when it comes to spending the tax-| cost, Very truly yours, | payers’ money, shows him to be en-) A. T. AXPAYTER. Birth Control; Self Control Editor The Star: Denver woman when off reads that | rnere is a discussion raging {m|the population of the world is in- New York City concegning birth creasing faster than the means of | control, caused by an opinion re0"| teaing, and that the only way to dered by « judge in Denver, Col. nae tds a ae woman who had “Void starvation of the race is to five children and was unable to) prevent indiscriminate reproduction property feed, clothe and educate! of the én them. The judge made the state The war was caused by the scheming of diplomats and grasping | commercial desires of rich men lik | those of Germany—and other coun- tries for that matter. Millions of mothers must have wondered dumb- |ly and agonizingly why their babies jhad been born—they were merely | pawns in the game of war. “The rich get richer, aud the poor get children.” “Ain't we got fon?” So the* popular song goes. But ment that types like her should be leompelled not to reproduce their | species even if an operation had to | be performed. / ‘Thin remark of the judge brought down & storm of protest upon his bead | To my mind self-control is far | more moral and decent than birth- control, But there is a large group of intelligent students of economy | who believe {HIP birth-control, whieh | they say ts ught freelx by physicians in foreign countries—is; | necessary |have we? \ I'd ike to hear from some one Ji. P.M. lelse on this subject. Big business interests are forcing | ° | American families down to the Ori- ental standard of living, In the | Men’s Two-Pant Suits $35 HATS, SHOES, FURNISHINGS | meantime, the wily Oriental keeps 1 ti hu dard of living. He | raising his standar ving ra 4427 Fee Chas. S site at the head of the table at the Filth Ave.’ Todd, Mgr. disarmament conference. | There may be some truth after all | opinion regarding the Holida Greetings Pacific Telephone Telegraph Company | right to punish the other for these! actions of the other, however @is 7) ‘There ‘ay menial.| only one cause and that is incom paint ac|high school graduates, The Wash: — “Bill” ‘ wit the Co pories, We